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Now Available: Slide Presentations From the 160th ARL Membership Meeting
| Academic Libraries, Associations and Organizations, Digital Preservation, Libraries, Management and Leadership, Preservation
The 160th ARL Membership Meeting took place in Chicago last week. Slides online today, audio for some sessions coming soon. Direct to Program and Slides Slides From the Following Sessions are Available Code of Best Practices in Fair Use (Session Not Recorded) A View from Campus: The E-Science Institute Post-Capstone (Session Not Recorded) Digital Preservation Network […]
New Issue Alert: Journal of Digital Information (Vol. 13 No. 1)
| Data Files, Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interactive Tools, Journal Articles, Libraries, New Issue, Open Access, Preservation
Direct to Table of Contents/Links to Full Text Articles This issue of The Journal of Digital Information (JoDI) is devoted to papers presented at the 6th International Conference on Open Repositories that took place in Austin, Texas during June, 2011. Tom Cramer from Stanford served as editor for this special issue. Papers in This Issue […]
MacKenzie Smith Selected as New Dean of Libraries at UC Davis
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Data Files, Libraries, Management and Leadership
Congrats to MacKenzie Smith! From the UC Davis Announcement: MacKenzie Smith, an academic research library leader specializing in information technology and digital knowledge management, has been chosen to lead the University Library at the University of California, Davis. She will officially assume her new post as university librarian on June 1. Smith, who was chosen […]
Columbia and Cornell University Libraries: Latin American and Iberian Studies Collection Development Agreement Announced
| Academic Libraries, Archives and Special Collections, Libraries, News, Patrons and Users
From the Columbia University Libraries News Release: Columbia and Cornell University Libraries will collaboratively support the Latin American and Iberian Studies collection development activities of both institutions. This follows in a series of resource-sharing agreements between Columbia and Cornell developed through the 2CUL partnership. Columbia University’s Latin American and Iberian Studies Librarian, Sean Knowlton, will […]
Title Individual Title Requests in PDA Collections: A Small University Library’s Experience Author Debbi Dinkins Head of Technical Services Stetson University Source College and Research Libraries News May 2011 (Vol. 75 No. 3) From the Article In recent years, librarians have wrestled with e-book PDA programs. It seems as if most academic libraries have either […]
Results from Two OCLC Member Surveys About U.S. Academic and Community College Libraries Now Online
| Academic Libraries, Digital Collections, Interactive Tools, Libraries, Public Libraries, Reports, Resources
Two new reports with results from surveys of librarians are now available. Both are loaded with statistics and charts. U.S. Academic Libraries: A Snapshot of Priorities & Perspectives (4 pages; PDF) U.S. Community College Libraries: A Snapshot of Priorities & Perspectives (4 pages; PDF) Key Findings (via OCLC): Most academic and community college library staff: […]
Vanderbilt Digital Archive Recovers Lost Civil Rights Voices, Digitized Recordings Now Online
| Digital Collections, Digital Preservation, Interviews, Libraries, Profiles, Resources
From Vanderbilt University Digitized versions of the original reel-to-reel recordings that author Robert Penn Warren conducted with Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X and other key leaders in the U.S. Civil Rights Movement are now searchable through the Who Speaks for the Negro website housed at Vanderbilt University. [Clip] The original recordings are held at […]
Title Guiding Students from Consuming Information to Creating Knowledge: A Freshman English Library Instruction Collaboration Authors Susanne F. Paterson The University of New Hampshire at Manchester Carolyn White Gamtso The University of New Hampshire at Manchester Source Communications in Information Literacy Vol 5, No 2 (2012) Abstract In this paper we examine how faculty and […]
From Pepperdine University Libraries: Pepperdine University Libraries is pleased to announce the release of our latest digital collection. The Historic Sound Recordings collection features streaming recordings of memorable speeches and significant events that chart the history of Pepperdine University and, more broadly, Southern California. The collection includes archival recordings ranging from political speeches and debates […]
From The Daily Californian: In a bid to improve UC Berkeley libraries while mitigating fiscal deficits, library administrators have tasked teams of employees with exploring ways to continue library services and expand digital access to information in a more streamlined way. After presenting the teams’ proposals to the Library Committee of the Berkeley Division of […]
